Jim to Huck: “When I got all wore out wid work, en widdecallin’ for you, en went to sleep, my heart wuz mos’ broke bekase you wuzlos’, en I didn’t k’yer no mo’ what become er me en deraf’…. When I wakes up en fine you back agin’, all safe en soun’, de tears come en I could a got down on my knees en kiss’ you’ foot I’s so thankful; en all you wuzthinkin’ ‘bout wuz how you could make a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie.” p. 709.

Huck: “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to [Jim]—but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither…didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d a knowed it would make him feel that way.” p. 709.

Huck: “…behind a monstrous long raft that was as long going by as a procession.” p. 710.

Huck: “Jim said it made him feel all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom.” p. 710.

Huck: “I begun to get through my head that he was most free—and who was to blame for it? …me…couldn’t get that out of my conscience….” p. 711.

Huck: “…conscience up and says, every time, ‘But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could a paddled ashore and told somebody.” p. 711.

“Jim talked out loud all the time while I was talking to myself…was saying how the first thing he would do when he got to a free state he would go to saving up money and never spend a single cent, and when he got enough he would buy his wife, which was owned on a farm close to where Miss Watson lived; and then they would both work to buy the two children, and if their master wouldn’t sell them, they’d get an Ab’litionist to go and steal them.” p. 711.

Huck: “Here was [Jim] which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children—children that belonged to a man I didn’t even know; a man that hadn’t ever done me no harm…sorry to hear Jim say that, it was such a lowering of him.” p. 712.

Comment: You can’t get any more ironic than that last statement. RayS.